About the Authors

Xumeng Li

Affiliations Agricultural Mathematical Modeling and Data Processing Center, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China, International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila, Philippines, State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, Changsha, China

Xiaohui Wang

Affiliation Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Hailin Wei

Affiliation Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Xinguang Zhu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, Changsha, China

Yulin Peng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, Changsha, China

Ming Li

Affiliation Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Tao Li

t.li@irri.org (TL); hh863@126.com (HH)

Affiliation International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila, Philippines

Huang Huang

t.li@irri.org (TL); hh863@126.com (HH)

Affiliation Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XL, TL and HH. Data curation: XL, TL, HH, XW, HW and YP. Formal analysis: XL, TL, XW, HW and YP. Funding acquisition: XL, TL, XZ and ML. Investigation: XL, TL, HH. Methodology: XL. Project administration: XL and TL. Resources: XL, TL and HH. Software: XL. Supervision: XL and TL. Validation: XL and TL. Visualization: XL, TL and YP. Writing – original draft: XL and TL. Writing – review & editing: XL and TL.